Coronary Angiography for Follow-up of Heart Transplant Recipients: Insights From TIMI Frame Count and TIMI Myocardial Perfusion Grade

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 593-597

  Baris, Nezihi ^a   Sipahi, Ilke ^a   Kapadia, Samir R ^a   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a   Erinc, Kursad ^a   Gulel, Okan ^a   Crowe, Timothy D ^a   Hobbs, Robert ^a   Yamani, Mohamad H ^a   Taylor, David O ^a   Smedira, Nicolas ^a   Starling, Randall C ^a   Nissen, Steven E ^a   Tuzcu, E Murat ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION GRADE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION FRAME COUNT;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PULSATILE FLOW; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34249299052     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.03.016     Document Type: Article

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